Thursday is spent mostly indoors working on movie stuff. On my daily walkabout I see a placard outside a spa that is advertising the spa's body-detoxification properties through a four-panel progression of images showing a pair of feet in a foot-bath. The foot-bath gets progressively more mucked up with what I guess are toxins leaving the body, until in the fourth panel the feet are in a brown stew of their own filth. It is really unpleasant. I think I will save my money for the second-floor tango-and-ballroom-dancing school that is on that same block. For lunch, Donald makes us Chilean sea bass. It is a better lunch than we are used to. I swallow a tiny bone.
After quitting time it's pretty late and people have different plans and it's tough to get leaving-the-house momentum so we end up ordering pizza and watching documentaries on Netflix's streaming XBOX thing, which is very very cool. There's a Don Rickles documentary, "Mr. Warmth," the lesson of which is that Don Rickles is the fucking man and has been for a very long time, and that show business used to be different, and everybody in show business reluctantly admits that Vegas was way more fun when it was run by the mob. Bob Newhart constantly referring to the mafia as "the boys" and then cursing Howard Hughes for corporatizing the Strip is insanely endearing.
Then there's "Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room," the lesson of which is, you can zoom out and reduce the everyday things people need to shares you can buy and sell and for a few years that will make you and all your frat-boy bodies feel like masters of the universe watching the numbers whiz around and talking into a headset, but eventually you will destroy yourself. Which would be fine if you didn't destroy other people in the process. Also: a little while before collapsing, Enron made a huge splash by announcing they were going to go into broadband video-on-demand, the very technology we were watching the movie on (they couldn't get the tech together at the time). Also: a little while before collapsing, Enron was talking about creating a market for buying and selling the weather. This is one of those things that sounds ridiculous but then you say "I'm sure some economist smarter than I am could explain to me how it works," but they probably couldn't. That's how they got away with it all those years: everybody shrugged and said "they must have it figured out," even the people you and I assume have it figured out when we don't. Most of this was news to me: during the Enron crisis I was mostly trying to get cast in school plays, and the intricacies of mark-to-market profit reporting were not going to help me land the role of "Mayor" in Bye Bye Birdie. A fourth-rate impression of Pappy O'Daniel from "O, Brother, Where Art Thou?" however, was.
Massive failures are fascinating.
Posted by DC at June 19, 2009 07:15 PMrickles is the fucking man. haven't seen the movie, but his book is fantastic.
Posted by: daveI worked for an ad agency that did internal motivational branding for Enron. I quit after only a couple months. Then Enron folded. Then the dot-com bubble burst. Then the entire ad agency folded.
Dot Coms were a lot better when they were run by the mob.
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